So. What have I been doing, you ask?
Well, I've been doing a lot of things.
I've been running the adult high school program here in the evenings, working on my PhD research and writing papers for possible publication, hanging out with the Community Justice Committee, and writing my novels - finished number four in November and now I'm working on number five. Plus working full time at my regular job. Wow, that's a lot when you write it all down. I went to babysit for a co-worker the other night and his wife said to me, as she was leaving, "Do you want to know how to work the television?" I said, "No, that's ok, I'm writing a paper." She looked at me strangely and when she came back we were discussing all the things I do. She said to me, "Were you always like that?" I said, "I like to be busy."
Interspersed with that, I talk to all the kids a lot. Jason and Kyle got married last summer, I officiated, and their twins are almost 18 months old. My honorary grandbabies. Kirsten and Jorden are working in Edmonton, Ian and Madelena are living in Saskatoon while Madelena does her masters in something to do with pigs and Ian's looking for work. Rachel came home and is working in the records department for the GN, saving money for her future with her girl. Eric is working for the Housing Corp but is in the final stages of joining the armed forces.
I seem to have managed to quit smoking again, more than two years now. I'm good at quitting, just not at staying quit.
Well, I've been doing a lot of things.
I've been running the adult high school program here in the evenings, working on my PhD research and writing papers for possible publication, hanging out with the Community Justice Committee, and writing my novels - finished number four in November and now I'm working on number five. Plus working full time at my regular job. Wow, that's a lot when you write it all down. I went to babysit for a co-worker the other night and his wife said to me, as she was leaving, "Do you want to know how to work the television?" I said, "No, that's ok, I'm writing a paper." She looked at me strangely and when she came back we were discussing all the things I do. She said to me, "Were you always like that?" I said, "I like to be busy."
Interspersed with that, I talk to all the kids a lot. Jason and Kyle got married last summer, I officiated, and their twins are almost 18 months old. My honorary grandbabies. Kirsten and Jorden are working in Edmonton, Ian and Madelena are living in Saskatoon while Madelena does her masters in something to do with pigs and Ian's looking for work. Rachel came home and is working in the records department for the GN, saving money for her future with her girl. Eric is working for the Housing Corp but is in the final stages of joining the armed forces.
I seem to have managed to quit smoking again, more than two years now. I'm good at quitting, just not at staying quit.
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